5705.392
County spending plan.

(A)
A board of
county commissioners may adopt as a part of its annual appropriation measure a
spending plan, or in the case of an amended appropriation measure, an amended
spending plan, setting forth a quarterly schedule of expenses and expenditures
of all appropriations for the fiscal year from the county general fund. The
spending plan shall be classified to set forth separately a quarterly schedule
of expenses and expenditures for each office, department, and division, and
within each, the amount appropriated for personal services. Each office,
department, and division shall be limited in its expenses and expenditures of
moneys appropriated from the general fund during any quarter by the schedule
established in the spending plan. The schedule established in the spending plan
shall serve as a limitation during a quarter on the making of contracts and
giving of orders involving the expenditure of money during that quarter for
purposes of division (D) of section
5705.41 of the Revised
Code.

(1)
A board of county commissioners, by
resolution, may adopt a spending plan or an amended spending plan setting forth
separately a quarterly schedule of expenses and expenditures of appropriations
from any county fund, except as provided in division (C) of this section, for
the second half of a fiscal year and any subsequent fiscal year, for any county
office, department, or division that has spent or encumbered more than
six-tenths of the amount appropriated for personal services and payrolls during
the first half of any fiscal year.

(2)
During any fiscal year, a board of county commissioners, by resolution, may
adopt a spending plan or an amended spending plan setting forth separately a
quarterly schedule of expenses and expenditures of appropriations from any
county fund, except as provided in division (C) of this section, for any county
office, department, or division that, during the previous fiscal year, spent
one hundred ten per cent or more of the total amount appropriated for personal
services and payrolls by the board in its annual appropriation measure required
by section
5705.38 of the Revised Code. The
spending plan or amended spending plan shall remain in effect
for not more than two fiscal years . But if
the administrative officer of the office, department, or division for which the plan was
adopted is an elected official, the spending plan shall not be in
effect during a fiscal year in which that elected official is no longer the
administrative officer of that office, department, or division.

(3)
At
least thirty days before adopting a resolution under division (B)(1) or (2) of
this section, the board of county commissioners shall provide written notice to
each county office, department, or division for which it intends to adopt a
spending plan or an amended spending plan. The notice shall be sent by regular
first class mail or provided by personal service, and shall include a copy of
the proposed spending plan or proposed amended spending plan. The county
office, department, or division may meet with the board at any regular session
of the board to comment on the notice, or to express concerns or ask questions
about the proposed spending plan or proposed amended spending plan.

(C)
Division (B)
of this section shall not apply to any fund that is subject to rules adopted by
the tax commissioner under division (O) of section
5703.05 of the Revised
Code.